Skidding Into Oblivion

by Brian Hodge

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We each inhabit many worlds, often at the same time. From worlds on the inside, to the world on a cosmic scale. Worlds imposed on us, and worlds of our own making.

In time, though, all worlds will end. Bear witness:

  • After the death of their grandmother, two cousins return to their family’s rural homestead to find a community rotting from the soul outward, and a secret nobody dreamed their matriarch had been keeping.

  • The survivors of the 1929 raid on H.P. Lovecraft’s town of Innsmouth hold the key to an anomalous new event in the ocean, if only someone could communicate with them.

  • The ultimate snow day turns into the ultimate nightmare when it just doesn’t stop.

  • An extreme metal musician compels his harshest critic to live up to the hyperbole of his trolling.

  • With the last of a generation of grotesquely selfish city fathers on his deathbed, the residents of the town they doomed exercise their right to self-determination one last time.

  • As history repeats itself and the world shivers through a volcanic winter, a group gathers around the shore of a mountain lake to once again invoke the magic that created the world’s most famous monster.

  • With Skidding Into Oblivion, his fifth collection, award-winning author Brian Hodge brings together his most concentrated assortment yet of year’s best picks and awards finalists, with one thing in common:

    It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . and we don’t feel fine at all.

    • ISBN10 1771485183
    • ISBN13 9781771485180
    • Publish Date 28 March 2019 (first published 24 April 2018)
    • Publish Status Transferred
    • Publish Country CA
    • Imprint ChiZine Publications
    • Format Hardcover
    • Pages 248
    • Language English